Tax Analyst - (Contract - Immediate Start)

Role: Tax Analyst CA(SA)
Duration: Short-term contract
Location: Cape Town

One of our clients is a reputable Retail giant and they are looking for a Tax Analyst to join their team.

PURPOSE
What is the purpose of the job?
To manage the Tax risks for the company. Which includes ensuring that statutory returns are timeously completed and submitted according to legislative and SARS requirements. And ensuring that relevant accounting entries are processed and correctly disclosed in the financial statements.

Key Outcomes:

Ensure that tax returns and provisional tax return are completed timeously and that all required schedules have been completed and submitted.
Ensure that VAT returns are completed timeously and that all required schedules have been completed and submitted.
Ensure that tax computations and reconciliations are completed accurately and timeously.
Ensure that deferred tax reconciliations are completed timeously and accurately.
Complete the tax disclosure for the financial statements.
Ensure that information substantiating tax computations is accurate and provide analytical evidence.
Continuously monitor systems and processes, including change initiatives, to ensure compliance.
Make presentations to the tax committee (which includes the financial director)
Provide excellent tax information/advice to management as part of the decision making process.
Attend to international tax issues
Maintain up-to-date, detailed knowledge of trends and changes in Tax legislation by regular attendance of professional courses, workshops, etc.
Assist with Transfer pricing.
Assist with advice Payroll taxes.
Assist your colleagues and the tax department with achieving its goals.

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